“90,000 Minnesotans have signed up and I firmly believe they have something better because I believe in the free market and these people wouldn’t have come through and dealt with the hassles of MNsure and signed up if it wasn’t better than what they have today” MNsure Chair Brian Beutner told the rest of the MNsure board at a meeting on February 5th, 2014.

A Capitol City Project examination of the full meeting video uncovered Mr. Beutner’s comments as well as a telling exchange between Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Lucinda Jesson, and another board member that is indicative of the implementation of Healthcare.gov, MNsure, as well as many other troubled state-run health insurance exchanges.

While explaining the process of transferring people currently on one of Minnesota’s other government provided health insurance programs over to MNsure Lucinda Jesson was asked “So, does this part work?”. Her reaction was an audible sigh. That reaction is followed up by Erik Larson, MNsure’s Chief Operating Officer, claiming that the part of the exchange “is working much more successfully than it had been out of the gate.”<

Blockhead… the ACA is the exact opposite of the free market. The free market worked… as 85% of those with a current health care plan were happy with it. The free market would allow insurers to sell across state lines, tailor plans for people’s needs not dictate what is to be covered.
And 90,000 people signed up? That’s a good thing? There are 5.4 million people in Minnesota…do the math.

Richard Hilson

The guy is an idiot. He needs to go back to school and take a REAL Econ 101 course and learn the definition of a free market. Of course, most of the econ facility in this country don’t even know what a free market is. Look at Obama’s first Head of his economic council. She is the head of the UC-Berkley’s econ department. The “summer of recovery”.